New documentary Detransition Diaries exposes the lies of gender ideology

Libby Emmons Brooklyn NY

The three women interviewed about their experiences growing up female, believing that they could find happier lives by using medical technology to try to be male, each offer compelling testimony.

The fight over gender ideology has made its controversial way to schools, courts, legislatures, and hospitals. The harm done to children, women, and their rights to autonomy for years has continued for years under the guise of compassion. As factions form and people dig in their heels on either side, it’s easy to forget the people who have been intimately affected, harmed, and their lives unalterably changed in unwelcome ways.

The Detransition Diaries: Saving Our Sisters, is a new documentary that listens to young women who went through medical gender transition, with cross-sex hormones and surgeries, and came to regret it. The three women were interviewed about their experiences growing up female, believing that they could find happier lives by using medical technology to try to be male, with each offer compelling testimony.

Experts in education, medicine, and psychology have used institutions, organizations, and activism to convince much of the American public that it’s possible to change sex. Social media and advocacy groups online use concepts of affirmation, celebration, and pride to convince children and adolescents that gender transition solves problems of awkwardness, feeling like an outsider, and feeling uneasy and uncomfortable in their own bodies.